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B. P. BELL.

WIRE TYER.

No. 279,526. Patented June 19,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. BELL, OF YATES CENTRE, KANSAS.

WlRE-TYER.

PEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,525, dated June 19, 1883.

Application filed April 23, 1883.

.To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. BELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yates Centre, in the county of Woodson and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wire-Tyers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for tying wire; and the objects of my improveihents are, first, to construct a cheap, simple, and durable wire-tyer for tying wire around baled hay, &c.; second, to construct a wire-tying device for tying together the ends of all kinds of wires. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated by the accompa nying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views.

Similar letters refer to similar parts through- I out each view.

The handle a consists of a piece of suitable material, having two parallel sides, a, at one end, with a space, b, between them. At the outer end, and between the said sides, the slotted cog-wheel f is secured. This wheel has cogs around its center or part between the sides a, and has round ends with a slot, f, cut longitudinally and radially and about one-half of its diameter in depth, and a staple, e, is secured near the inner edge of the said slot, all as shown. A slot, 0/, is cut in the outer end of the sides a, corresponding with the one in the wheel f, so that a wire, 12', may be drawn through them, as shown.

It will be seen that the drawings represent both sides of my invention, and the crank d is placed on what might be termed the right side, so it can be used in the right hand. A large cog-wheel, c, is secured in the space I), just back of the smaller one by a shaft, (1, as shown, so that the cogs in the large wheel will engage with the cogs in the small wheel, for the purpose hereinafter specified. Fig. 2 rep resents the left side, or the opposite from (No model.)

that shown in Fig. 1. n will be seen in Fig. 2 that the end of the small wheel f projects slightly beyond the surface of the side a and has a notch, f in which the end of the springbolt 25 is made to engage. Thebolt t is secured to the side by the staples t t. A spiral spring, 8, winds around the central portion of the bolt, and one end being secured to the said bolt by screws 8 and the other end to the side by a screw, 8, as shown, so that it causes the said bolt'to press against the wheel or notch f when it is not pulled back.

In the operation of my invention it is held in the left hand by the handle a. Put the main wire through the slot in the wheel, as shown.

Having thus described my invention, I claim I the following and desire to secure the same by Letters Patent.-

1. The combination of the handle (1.0" u", havinga space, 1), wheel 0, wheel f f 'f staple e, crank d, bolt t, staple 1 and spring .9, all for the purpose set forth.

2. In a wiretying device, the combination of the wheel f f f, staple 6, wheel 0, and crank d, with the handle (I, having a slot, a, all for the purpose set forth.

In a wire-tyer, the handle (1 a, having a slot, (1., and space I), in combination with the crank 11 for operating the drive wheel 0, grooved wheel ff, and staple e, substantially as specified.

BENJAMIN F. BELL.

lVitnesses J. E. PICKETT, V. A. BAILEY. 

